James Stanley

UK GP 🩺 and long-term investor. Daily market dissections with dark humour 🔪 Built from £0, no inheritance, no leverage. Full portfolio public on eToro 👇

[James Stanley @JF_Stanley]

UK GP 🩺 First in my family to go to university, and the first to invest. Built from £0, no inheritance, no finance degree.

+25.6% this year. Risk score 4/10. No leverage, no shorting.

This is Scalpel to Stocks 🔪 Here's the whole story 👇

By day I'm a GP. By 6am I'm reading earnings reports with a coffee, because it turns out the skills overlap more than you'd think. Take a history, look for the red flags, ignore the noise, and never panic in front of the patient.

I didn't start well. In 2022-23 I day traded, which is a bit like treating yourself with whatever's in the medicine cabinet. Lots of activity, very little healing. 🎢 I stopped, and rebuilt everything around one boring, brilliant idea: buy good businesses and leave them alone long enough for compounding to do the heavy lifting.

Where it stands today, straight from my eToro profile:

📈 +25.6% so far in 2026, +27.3% over the last 12 months
🛡️ Risk score 4 out of 10, and it hasn't gone above 4 all year
✅ 69% of trades profitable, two thirds of months in the green
📉 Worst dip this year: about 9%
🗓️ Active every single week

Every position is public. The winners, and the ones that have humbled me.

I'd rather show you the scars than pretend I don't have any.

If you want to see the full workings, the thesis behind each holding and the whole journey, it's all on my eToro profile:
https://t.co/JmAfKNfTWD

A bit more about Scalpel to Stocks:

https://t.co/NuXJYjWSOF

Not investment advice. Past performance is not a guide to future returns. 🙏

[James Stanley @JF_Stanley]

@elonmusk A few moments later...

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@elonmusk

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@leonid_zador Meanwhile.....you be cruising round with your "boats n' hoes". (Stepbrothers reference)

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@Benny05101993 @timoassi That is the rap artist EGGS-D-SCRAMBLED by the way.

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@leonid_zador Not the end. I think we still have more of a dip on the rollercoaster. Just need to keep listening out in future earnings. I am not sure how it is failing so big in China vs. Adidas.

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@jmcnally647 @elonmusk 🤣🤣 I love the subtle writing on the tin foil. They'll still manage to get in without a hitch I swear...

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@timoassi Do you view it better than the SpaceX hype?

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ARK bought 233,482 shares of Rocket Lab ($RKLB), about $16.4m, on Thursday. Disclosed Friday morning. Cathie Wood doubling down on the space-infrastructure bet while everyone else argues about jobs data.

Would you follow her into $RKLB here, or is this the one where the hype outruns the thesis?

Curious what I actually hold and why?
https://t.co/JmAfKNfTWD

More at

https://t.co/NuXJYjWSOF

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@elonmusk As my friend always used to say, I like my FSD like I like my coffee.....ground up and kept in the freezer....👀

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@timoassi Proud holder of CEG I am.

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@StockMKTNewz F***ing diabolical

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@AshCrypto

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@jmcnally647 @elonmusk It's more covered up than Friday night's lasagne in my house full of cats.

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@realDonaldTrump

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@timoassi Woooop

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@elonmusk A bacterium does not negotiate with its mitochondria. If the plan holds, every existing fab is a organelle that hasn’t been told yet.

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@elonmusk Sunny side up please. 🍳